Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

124 reviews

atomicbritt's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Racism

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion and Infidelity

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Addiction, Racism, Alcoholism, Cancer, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse and Infidelity

Minor: Abortion and Car accident

daniellekat's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

Beautifully written but just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Grief, Emotional abuse, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Body shaming

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Abortion, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Hate crime

kingsamong's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Cancer, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Infidelity and Mental illness

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Too fucking slow for Libby. Put another hold on it to finish it because I'm loving it.

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Finally finished this in audiobook format. What a beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abortion

sammyb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Car accident and Abortion

Minor: Infidelity

weaverca's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, Addiction, and Drug abuse

robyn_elouise's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s kind of like reading those recipe blogs where you scroll past five paragraphs of deeply personal stories to get to the ingredients list. I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way; preparing and sharing food can be heavily tied to our memories. It’s beautiful that Michelle Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean family and identity through food. I’m very curious to see what the movie will be like!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Car accident, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Grief, and Infidelity

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Excrement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Vomit

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Addiction, Abortion, and Rape

sageysage's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful story of love, loss, and food. Zauner’s prose is so evocative and rich it feels like you’re seeing and tasting and smelling everything she puts on the page. The fact that someone can be such a talented musician and then write such a brilliant memoir is infuriatingly impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Minor: Infidelity and Eating disorder